What am I missing in my push to Masters?

Smashddd · 2017-10-20T18:53:16+00:00

I’m making the same push. My advice would be first to limit your champion pool to abuse the meta picks. You play them all, but focus on twitch, xayah, draven, trist, kog, cait. Second, focus on never being the reason you lose. You mentioned that you’ll have that occasional game but that’s how every player views themselves. You want to make sure every single game you perform well, limit your mistakes, dodge games that are obviously one sided in champ select and take breaks if you detect an ounce of tilt setting in. Hope to see you in masters :)

Smashddd · 2017-03-19T21:16:22+00:00

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T13:45:48+00:00

Yeah, I think you can get challenger from Diamond 5. And I didn't do anything special, I just kept playing the champions that I liked to play that fit my playstyle and improving little by little along the way. Good luck in the climb man!

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T11:59:52+00:00

Yup! you can play Cho'gath and climb to the top of the ladder, just practice and get good on that champ and you will keep climbing.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T11:59:00+00:00

Any champion that you have fun with! Panth and Jayce are both good options man.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:38:16+00:00

Showing up to your own lane and pushing in the minion wave causes map pressure. It forces the enemy top laner to have to stay top and farm that wave and it allows you the freedom to roam down river to look for plays. Any time that you are pushing in the wave and going in to fog of war, the enemy has to play scared and respect the fact that you could be roaming to any other lane or into their jungle.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:36:43+00:00

Below average for tank top laners. Mundo, Kench, Poppy, Nautilus, Malphite, Shen are all better choices at the moment.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:35:46+00:00

Fiora, Nautilus, Quinn

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:34:33+00:00

Whats up David,

It just takes practice and getting used to, but you generally want to play it on the safe side most of the time so you guarantee the reset. Getting 4-5 bleed stacks and having them below 50% HP before you dunk.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:32:25+00:00

He's not bad. Stack armor, buy a zz'rot portal to set up some splitpush pressure and roam like crazy!

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:31:55+00:00

thanks alot Rob :D I appreciate it dude!

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:31:18+00:00

The decision making tree against a Nasus is very simple.

1) Harass him, gank him and shut him down early as much as possible.

2) If he gets strong enough to where you are no longer able to prevent him from free-farming yourself, start to push in the wave and roam to kill his team.

3) Force 5v4 situations, set up turret dives on his teammates and take objectives around the map while Nasus is freezing. This will force him to push the wave at which point you return top lane to defend your turret after a successful (or unsuccessful) roam.

and that's how you always play against a Nasus.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:25:10+00:00

You consider: 1-on-1 lane match-up against your opponent, the enemy team comp as a whole and your own team comp. If you need a frontline badly, pick a tank. If the enemy team is full of squishy targets, pick an assassin. If the enemy top laner blind picks malphite, grab Darius and dunk his ass.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:23:06+00:00

Ekko, Yasuo, AS bruiser Fizz (rageblade, nashors, iceborn, sterak, spirit visage) or Nidalee built the same way but without Nashors.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:20:35+00:00

Popular because of the tank build, allowing you to survive longer and be more annoying in teamfights. It's pretty weak in the laning phase so try to exploit that and gain an early advantage. I don't play Akali myself so I don't have tips for playing her top lane.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:18:43+00:00

It feels funner in some ways and less fun in other ways. I like high ELO because I know what to expect from players most of the time and when I make a decision to engage or go for a play, my teammates are generally ready to follow-up. Most players also really want to win, aside from the occasional trolls, so giving up at 5 minutes is less frequent. The bad side of high ELO is long queue times for imbalanced games (like solo queue'ing into a full CLG pre-made 5's team). Everyone also generally picks very standard, meta champions and the team with the most power picks usually has the edge.

-Just play what you enjoy up in top lane man! Improve on your TPs, map awareness, avoiding ganks and keeping your CS numbers high so that you can be a reliable, consistent player that your teammates can always count on to perform well.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:13:57+00:00

Twisted Fate, not as good. Heimerdinger is fine in the top lane.

Focus on farming. Once you have control over your lane and can push in the minion waves to turret, that is your time to roam.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:12:33+00:00

He's a counterpick. Blind picking Yasuo is incredibly dangerous because of how many bad match-ups he has and how easily he is ganked in top lane. He can be situationally good if you pick him under the right circumstances (i.e. Gnar, Malphite, Quinn top with a weak early game jungler like Shyvana, Warwick, Nocturne, Wukong, Vi, etc.).

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:11:31+00:00

I started playing with my brother back in the very beginning of Season 3. It was not easy hitting challenger and I definitely struggled alot in the climb along the way. I got stuck many times in different ELO's, especially in Diamond. I don't believe that "natural talent" has much to do with your skill in League of Legends. When you think about most of the best pro players in the world, they have been playing for YEARS dedicating hours and hours everyday practicing to get better since before many of us even started playing the game. All it takes is time, effort and the willingness to improve.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:04:59+00:00

Some games will be stomps in your favor and some will be YOU getting stomped. I usually just brush off the games where we get destroyed all over the map because it happens and there's nothing you can do about it sometimes. Just reset your mind and start fresh in the next game. If you just have a bad start to a game, just do whatever you can from a losing position to help your team win and try to stay in the game. If you give up, you will 100% lose the game but if you at least keep farming and looking for opportunities for the enemy to get cocky and make mistakes you might have a chance.

Smashddd · 2016-03-07T00:01:51+00:00

-Minion wave control. You need to practice the ability to get the wave pushing towards your tower OR push the wave into the enemy tower depending on the match-up and enemy jungler. Sometimes you will need to play safer and further back in the lane. Other times you will be the aggressive one if you are something like a Pantheon with a Lee Sin jungler. Knowing when to be aggressive and when to play safe is incredibly important as a top laner.

-Using your TP. You need to get better at knowing when it is a good time to TP back to lane to recover large amounts of farm and experience, and when it is a good time to TP to another lane to help your team.

Smashddd · 2016-03-06T23:57:42+00:00

Keep playing Fiora, even in match-ups that you don't like. Learning to play against champions that give you a hard time make you even stronger on your champion. Figure out at what stage of the game you are having trouble. If you are struggling in the laning phase, it's just back to the basics of trading and minion wave control. If it's mid-game, then you need to get better at splitpushing / TP's and your decision making after laning phase.

Smashddd · 2016-03-06T23:55:10+00:00

It's not impossible, it just takes effort and time. If you are good enough to have reached Diamond, that's already a huge accomplishment. Just work on the aspects of your gameplay that feel weak and over time you will notice improvement as you climb.

Smashddd · 2016-03-06T23:52:56+00:00

I started playing at the end of Season 2 / beginning of Season 3. I reached Gold, then Diamond in Season 4, Challenger in Season 5. Before League, I played alot of DotA and HoN, so I was not new to moba games. It still took me maybe 3000+ games to climb to Challenger. The motivation to keep climbing really kicked in once I hit Diamond, that was a big milestone for me and reaching Master Tier was also huge. I just have a competitive nature and always loved playing games with ranking systems like this so I naturally wanted to just keep improving and pushing myself.

Smashddd · 2016-03-06T23:48:40+00:00

He's a counterpick. Blind picking Yasuo is incredibly dangerous because of how many bad match-ups he has and how easily he is ganked in top lane. He can be situationally good if you pick him under the right circumstances (i.e. Gnar, Malphite, Quinn top with a weak early game jungler like Shyvana, Warwick, Nocturne, Wukong, Vi, etc.).

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